The Whyte Cliffs

<h3>Abrasive unsettling and bitingly funny.</h3><p></p><p><em>The Whyte Cliffs</em> is a sharp darkly comic bilingual playscript (English-French) set against the backdrop of England's migrant crisis. Often abrasive and some might say shocking it explores power desire and the fragile bonds of sorority on the south-east coast.</p><p></p><p>Siobhàn a young Irish busker is on her way to Paris to start a new life as a student. But before crossing to the continent she has an old score to settle at the Whyte Cliffs Guest House. Mrs Whyte the menopausal owner of the guest house remains entangled in her long-term abusive relationship with Fred Tennant a former member of the National Front who has long since lost interest in her. </p><p></p><p>Desperate to rekindle his desire Mrs Whyte leans on her friend Joan who runs a makeshift beauty parlour from her garden shed next door. Singing and its restorative force together with the solidarity of women drive this darkly comic drama towards its unexpected conclusion.</p><p></p><p>--------</p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)>Une tragi-comédie qui se joue sur les falaises blanches de la côte anglaise où les réfugiés clandestins arrivent en grand nombre dans des petites embarcations précaires.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)>Mrs Whyte est propriétaire de </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)>The Whyte Cliffs</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)> une pension de famille en grande difficulté financière depuis le</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)> Brexit</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)>. Toujours amoureuse de Fred son compagnon violent qui ne s'intéresse plus à elle Mrs Whyte cherche par tous les moyens à le reconquérir...</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 51 56 1)>Heureusement ses amies sont là pour venir à sa rescousse et l'aident à trouver la chanson qui guérirait ses maux ... C'est périlleux mais Mrs Whyte sort enfin de son placard.</span></p>